- dust
- 01. Look at all the [dust] on these shelves; we really need to clean this place up.02. The room hadn't been cleaned for a long time, and there was [dust] on everything.03. The car raised a cloud of [dust] as it rolled along the dirt road.04. I spent the afternoon cleaning the room, vacuuming the carpets, and [dusting] the shelves.05. Our bookshelf was all [dusty], so I cleaned it up.06. When I sat down on the old sofa, a cloud of [dust] rose into the air around me.07. He couldn't stay in the [dusty] room because of his allergies.08. The Bible tells us that human life began when God breathed life into a handful of [dust].09. Atal Bihari Vajpayee once said that music washes away from the soul the [dust] of everyday life.10. There is a Maltese proverb which suggests that long skirts carry [dust], but short skirts carry away souls.11. In 1850, Levi Strauss was paid $6.00 in gold [dust] for his first pair of jeans.12. Seventy percent of house [dust] is made up of dead skin flakes.13. My kids usually do the [dusting] while I vacuum the house.14. Alice Springs, a town in Australia, has an average of more than 10 [dust] storms every year.15. Our galaxy is filled with gas and [dust] that makes distant stars look fainter and thus appear farther away than they really are.16. The sky of Mars is pink because of the fine red [dust] which is carried into the atmosphere by winds.17. The explosion of the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl in 1986 sent vast clouds of radioactive [dust] northward into the Republic of Belarus.18. The most colorful sunsets appear when there is lots of [dust] in the sky.
Grammatical examples in English. 2013.